Sentence examples for vicious towards from inspiring English sources

Whistler was uncomfortable with Wilde's success and gradually became more vicious towards him.

Mr Blunkett said: "The protection that broadcasters in particular have is 'well, everybody knows this is comedy don't they?' So it's not libellous, it's not dangerous in the sense that it's targeted and therefore vicious towards an individual.

When we were young, the three of us were vicious towards our father.

Comments like this: "No wonder police are more vicious towards your community - you are clearly a violent community that needs to be controlled by weapons and punches and kicks" are not at all infrequently uttered.

As well as the domestic political cost, she risks – at best – lending legitimacy to Mr Erdoğan's increasingly vicious intolerance towards journalists asking awkward questions.

Although the judge accepted Shuttleworth had experienced tragedy in losing her mother and grandmother following a "troubling" upbringing, he said she had shown a cruel and vicious streak towards Keanu.

The outstanding Mertens, who had already fired inches wide, whipped a vicious corner towards the Wales front post and Kompany used his strength to resist Darcy Blake's challenge to head past Boaz Myhill.

Consequently, patients reduce their activity level even more, entering a vicious circle towards higher levels of disability [ 35, 36].

On the other hand, the effects of sleep deprivation contribute, in an escalating vicious cycle, towards difficulty in affect regulation on the following day.

Be careful when dealing with a conscious animal in pain, it may become vicious, even towards its owners.

Baines gets to line up a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal and sends a vicious dipping effort towards Scott Brown's top corner.